Fact # 7
Russia actually won the space race
It may seem more conspiracy theory like but if you consider what the space race is you will see that Russia is the clear winner. Before the Americans were even looking to the skies, Russia launched a probe into space. That's when America began to shoot rockets into the air. Russia got the first man in space (Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin) and even the first dog into space (Laika who was the first first creature in space but tragically died within just hours of takeoff). However the United States wasnt too far behind, replicating most Soviet missions and eventually with the Apollo missions sent the first man on the moon, so most people say America won. However it would be better titled the race to the moon for a American victory.
(You win again Russia.)
Fact # 8
Fire ants can form boats to cross and survive on bodies of water, made of ants !
This phenomenon occurs in the Amazon, Fire ants during the wet rainy seasons, actually join together and form boats. Common worker ants are on the bottom and the queen of the colony with the colony's future children on top. However ants on the bottom tend to drown, all in the name of the queen !
(Ants are about as annoying as bees, and now they can swim.)
Fact # 9
Conventional Combustion is impossible in space
Space is the universes largest vacuum, and combustion is impossible in a vacuum. Many people tried to ignite gunpowder, solid rocket fuel, liquid rocket fuel, and oil inside of a vacuum (note these are highly explosive) but to no avail. So hence combustion is impossible in space. But there are ways to get around this. Combustion requires oxygen and other gases in order to react properly, and in order to provide thrust there has to be other forms of matter in the air, but space has neither oxygen nor matter in the vacuum. To combat this spacecraft bring their own oxygen to combustion while in space providing both a propulsion point and a chemical mixture to create combustion.
(They also need extra oxygen. You know in case the rockets don't function properly and they need to re-route. And you know… so the astronauts can breath) .
Fact # 10
There is a chemical so potent, doing anything to it will cause it to explode.
Azidoazide Azide
Yes, this is really the name of the first chemical on the list. Azidoazide Azide is the single most explosive compound in the world. On a chemical level, this is because Azidoazide Azide stops Nitrogen ions from coming together in the way that they want to, which the Nitrogen ions resent, and they just take the tiniest of knocks to snap into place, which releases a whole lot of energy; an explosion. Attempts have been made to measure just how much of a knock it takes to set the explosion off, but they have failed, as even the smallest touch the instruments the US military used set off the explosive decomposition. Things that can cause Azidoazide Azide to explode include: moving it, touching it, leaving it alone on a glass plate, exposing it to bright light or x-rays, putting it in a spectrometer, turning on the spectrometer, or even absolutely nothing. On one occasion, a sample was stored in a shock-proof, explosive-proof case, in a dark, climate controlled room and, it blew up.
In fact a tanker full of the dangerous material had a spill, and gallons of the chemical spewed onto the concrete sidewalk. The chemical was so potent that it ate through over a meter of concrete. One bystander described it as this,
"The concrete was on fire!"
(Sounds like someone made this chemical really angry, like a long time bully. It was you wasn't it. Shame) .